All news on the topic: War crimes

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Israeli 'settler' filmed shooting unarmed Palestinian at point-blank range
WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Video has emerged that appears to show a Palestinian man being shot by a gunman – understood to be an Israeli settler – who is then manhandled away by alleged Israeli Defence Force soldiers
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​Intelligence services' Gaza hospital probe will be published by UK Government
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told the Commons British experts were analysing information and would come to their own conclusion, which would then be made public
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'Palestinian civilians and kids should not be blamed for inhumanity of Hamas'
Keir Mudie says is he terrified by the Israeli president Isaac Herzog who is putting the blame for the ­inhumanity of Hamas on to all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
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What we know about the Americans killed in the Israel-Hamas war as 27 die so far
At least 27 Americans have been killed so far, according to officials. The Israeli defence minister has vowed to "use every measure at our disposal" in response
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Inside Mariupol siege as new film bears witness to agony of innocent Ukrainians
Ukrainian journalists from the ­Associated Press who decided to stay in Mariupol after every other media group left ended up filming not just the worst, but also the best of humanity
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Russian snipers accused of raping mum at gunpoint to go on trial in Ukraine
WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: One of the Russian snipers is accused of sexually assaulting a woman’s four-year-old daughter, and both ‘raped girls aged 15 and 17’ during Vladimir Putin’s invasion
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Russian rebels urge Wagner mercenaries to fight against Putin for revenge
The leader of the notorious Wagner Company military group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, was killed alongside other senior mercenary warlords when his private jet tumbled out of the sky around 500km from Moscow
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'I was 11 when I was taken from my family and sent to Russia before Ukraine war'
It is estimated that almost 20,000 Ukrainian children have been systermatically abducted and deported from their home towns and sent to Russia since the start of the invasion in February last year
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Russian 'beasts' bomb blood transfusion centre as Zelensky condemns 'war crime'
Volodymyr Zelensky spoke out after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night. Rescuers are still trying to tackle the blaze after the strike
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Russians 'electrocuting genitals' of prisoners in Ukraine 'torture chambers'
WARNING, DISTURBING CONTENT: A human rights organisation is investigating 360 active cases involving Ukrainian civilians detained in torture chambers across Kherson, with many victims saying Russian soldiers sexually assaulted them
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Guinea diplomat proudly shows off his shirt patterned with Putin's face
Guinean embassy worker Lama Jacques Sevoba was spotted draped in a t-shirt covered with the face of Russia's tyrannical leader, Vladimir Putin, who is on a charm offensive trying to shore up support for his brutal war in Ukraine among African leaders
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Royals set for two years of 'soft democracy' blitz to keep Commonwealth intact
Recent years have been marked by a number of Commonwealth nations edging towards leaving the colonial bloc with senior royals now set to go on a charm offensive to maintain relations
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Moment Wagner coup forces smash through pro-Putin barricade in fight for Moscow
Mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenaries the Wagner Group has smashed its way through barricades erected by civilians attempting to keep them way from Moscow
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'Prospect that generous post-Brexit US deal could be reached is exposed as myth'
Britain already does an enormous amount of business with the US, exporting more to America than any other single country
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'Five-year rule is a smokescreen - these two heroes deserve to be honoured'
The clamour is growing after the country was moved to tears by Kevin Sinfield carrying his old team-mate Rob Burrows over the finish line at a marathon
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Afghan war veteran 'shot prisoner dead and kept prosthetic leg to drink beer'
A federal court judge found that articles published claiming that Ben Roberts-Smith had unlawfully killed Afghan prisoners and "bullied and harassed" Afghan civilians were "substantially true"
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Abandoned bunker used for evil human experiments during WW2 found after 78 years
The facility, discovered Anda in Heilongjiang province, was manned by the notorious Unit 731 in the Second World War who conducted vile experiments on Chinese prisoners
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Ukrainian prisoners 'electrocuted and pray for death' in Russian torture jail
Alexander Tarasov, a former inmate of Russia's Simferopol Detention Centre, has opened up about life inside, and how innocent civilians are tortured
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'Reckoning' needed for Russia after Ukraine war, says ex-US military chief
Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said the Kremlin needed to face facts in the 21st Century, while a former NATO boss called on the West to reach out to younger Russians
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Joe Biden declares Vladimir Putin 'will not break resolve' in supporting Ukraine
Joe Biden told Volodymyr Zelensky and other fellow world leaders at the G7 summit that the United States are "not going anywhere" as Vladimir Putin's bloody war continues
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Ex-world champion boxer who fought David Haye spotted at Vladimir Putin speech
Nikolai Valuev, who was the biggest and heaviest fighter in boxing history, became a politician for the Untied Russia party after 16 years in the ring - in which he faced off against Britain's David Haye
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Ukrainian editor's news website goes from start-up to essential war source
Olga Rudenko is editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, a news website now heralded the world over for its reporting of the conflict
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Your Sudan war questions answered as conflict kills hundreds and traps civilians
Earlier this month, chaos broke out as the Sudanese army and rebel Rapid Support Forces clashed with heavy bombing and gunfights breaking out in Khartoum
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Russian soldier cuts Ukrainian's head off with knife in sick video posted online
WARNING DISTURBING CONTENT: The hideous clip shows a small unit of Russian soldiers working each other up to "cut off" a defenceless Ukrainian prisoner of war's head by "breaking the spine"
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War hero who brought Nazi death squads to justice at Nuremberg dies aged 103
Benjamin Ferencz was just 27 when he became chief prosecutor for the US, bringing to justice members of the Einsatzgruppen - the Nazi death squads who murdered indiscriminately